KINGWOOD — The Quick Response Teams (QRT) program was again the topic of discussion at Thursday’s meeting of the Preston County Board of Health. Preston County is working to expand its Quick Response Team by finding funding to train more coaches. Currently, the county has only one ...
KINGWOOD — Preston County is working to expand its Quick Response Team (QRT) by training more coaches, according to VJ Davis, director of the Preston County Health Department. He said the program would be run by Preston Prevention. Davis said members of the Preston County Commission ...
Monongalia County Health Department About 1,408 doses of naloxone reached the hands of the general public on Saturday during Save a Life Day, an effort to make the medication, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, more accessible to members of the community. Volunteers were ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Sam Shawish used substances and got clean a few times, once for more than two years. But a little over a year ago, on Sept. 4, 2020, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, “I had some things happen to me, and I made the decision to use again.” After ...
KINGWOOD — A search for naloxone led a Kingwood police officer to the Monongalia County Quick Response Team. “I was responding to overdose calls, and I would get to the scene before the ambulance. I didn’t have the equipment I needed to help the person,” Officer Gina McNemar ...
MORGANTOWN -- While the COVID-19 pandemic surges, there is a quieter epidemic that has been plaguing West Virginia for years: overdose. According to the National Institutes of Health, West Virginia has the highest rate of opioid-involved overdose deaths per 100,000 people. With each life ...